Thread on Reptilicious.com

I read the post on fauna as well as his site and this guy seems like bad news. I never really thought about watermarking my images either but now I might consider it.

What I find highly amusing is that Snowballs tag line is "Often imitated".
Great catch Heather!

What a TOOL! :rolleyes:

Wow D.... call me! :D

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Originally Posted by Deborah

This will give you an idea on who Tim Bowles is http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ghlight=bowles - http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ight=snowballs

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Oh my. It always makes me feel sad when people choose to become less than their true potential...such a waste of life... :tears:

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Who is this Tim Bowles guy and who is Nigel? They slam NERD, Kev and Kara pretty darn hard in their blog on their website...wow, ugly.... :(

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Let me shed a little light here...I am Matt Lerer and my company name is Ghi Reptiles :banana: just a plug.

Tim has been harassing me for almost 5 years now because he got busted ripping me off and has been basically thrown out of the US herp industry for his actions leading up to and following his scam. Kevin is one of my best friends and so is Kara and a couple of years ago Tim started going after my friends when he realized his attacks on me were easily dismissed.

He filed false complaints against myself and Tony Nicoli...another very close friend...just to try and get us in trouble with the state for having venemous animals in our homes that we never even had. I had a long talk with them and the state said they will take it up the state of Ohio (where Tim lives) if he files any false reports again.

So in a nutshell he is still up to his same old tricks of stealing, scamming, and trying to screw with people at the expense of others. I appologize to Diana because his thread was directed at me as I have a trio of animals which slightly resemble your female and they are 07' imports that I hope are genetic. I post pics of them and these are his replys:

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Normal.

I showed these pics to several breeders today. They all said the same thing. Normals

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The UK forum he is on is a great forum with no problems, really nice members, and a great atmosphere, and it sucks he is pulling his act on them since they don't know about him...not a cool thing to do :colbert:

Matt~ Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry that Tim is doing this against you and people you care about. I care a great deal about Kevin and Kara and was pretty disappointed that someone would post things that were so hurtful and could very much hurt their business should someone read it and not know about the integrity of Kev, Kara and NERD. Try as I may, people continue to be my greatest source of disappointment....guess that's why I have so many animals! Again, thank you for sharing this painful history... Tim must just be a petty tyrant- no more, no less.....

Matt, no apologies necessary. There are people out there who are going to do dumb things no matter what anyone else does. I would, however, love to see pics of the imports you mentioned. :)

Hey Diana...e-mail is on the way.

We also had problems with Tim aka Snowballs on a forum where I am a moderator at. Matt is also aware of this as Tim tried to make Matt out to be a little less than upstanding.

I am glad to see that everything was taken care of D and you will have to help me out on that watermarking thing.

I think that's actually the first thing he does when he joins a new forum. I have heard from so many mod's on so many forums regarding what he pm's them about me that it would make your head spin. Did you know that I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll? Neither did I...

I don't know why he would want this but he told someone that he wants to be the most famous person in the reptile community...even if it means being the most dishonest and most disliked. I think instead he is probably the most forgotten since he has been banned from about 20 or so forums though...